Reading shop is the worst - Substation Engineer FirstEnergy Employee Review

1.0
30 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

union work so they let you sleep in the truck while customers go with out electric for days on end.

Cons

you spend most of the day looking the other way while your coworkers get high and laugh about how much they get paid. the management at the reading,pa could have been ran better by an 8yr old. I moved to different shop and found out that some people actual do work other than complain in this company.

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5.0
3 Dec 2025
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Pros

FirstEnergy is a big company with a lot of growth that I've seen firsthand. Employees are helpful and all have the shared goals of keeping reliability of the electric grid. The pay is decent and stays competitive with the market rates as they do reviews consistently and evaluate. Its a great company that is trying to do better after misguided leads hip in the past

Cons

Some executive leadership vision is not shared with lower level employees. The recent transition from WFH back to the office has left employees such as myself wondering why its not role based WFH.

1.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Not much anymore - was once a solid company

Cons

Terribly managed since Tierney and his cronies took the helm

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